No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.

But Death was cunning.

It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really...

The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip...

How to read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better,...

He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every...

He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby’s front, and that he had stretched out...

I will be sharing additional information I’ve been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter

We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we’re making today.

And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that’s never going to happen,” I said blithely.

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

No, Harry, you listen,” said Hermione. “We’re coming with you. That was decided months ago – years, really.

Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all...

Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his...

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness…

They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim’s not an omen, it’s the cause of death! And Harry’s still with us because he’s not stupid enough to see one and think, right, well,...

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore’s feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff’s furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

Palavras são, na minha nada humilde opinião, nossa inesgotável fonte de magia. Capazes de formar grandes sofrimentos e também de remedia-los.

But Dobby shouted, “You shall not harm Harry Potter! … He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. “You shall go now,” he said fiercely, pointing...

Wit beyond measure is mans greatest treasure

Or maybe I will . . . then she’ll ditch me . . .

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

Well, it’s not very good, is it? I’ve tried a few simple spells just for practice and it’s all worked for me. I’ve learned all our course books by heart, of course.

For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foesAnd we must unite inside her or we’ll crumble from within

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have “essential” and “long overdue” meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual...

It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of...

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the...

Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ.” – Albus Dumbledore

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, ‘It unscrews the...

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

No – no – no!” someone was shouting. “No! Fred! No!”And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred’s eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still...

Mi ero troppo affezionato a te” spiegò Silente con semplicità. “Tenevo più alla tua felicità che a farti conoscere la verità,più alla tua serenità che al mio piano.Ho agito esattamente come Voldemort si aspetta che...

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

By the time she had interpreted Harry’s dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much...

There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than...

Neville kicked aside the broken fragments of his own wand as they walked slowly toward the door. “My gran’s going do kill be,” said Neville thickly, blood spattering from his nose as he spoke, “dat...

Wenn wir träumen, betreten wir eine Welt, die ganz und gar uns gehört.

And it’s Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I’ve been saying it for years but she still won’t go out with me —”JORDAN!’ yelled Professor McGonagall.’Just a fun fact, Professor,...

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore’s face as he stared down at the unconscious form...

and lucky Harry doesn’t lose his head in a crisis — ‘there’s no wood,’ honestly.

Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’,...

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Killing rips the soul apart.

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

NO!”The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.